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Every research project requires advance planning, and the better the
planning the more successful the project. Preparing a research plan is one
of the most important tasks you will undertake as a PhD candidate. This
brief document offers some basic guidelines for preparing a research plan
and for using it as a roadmap during your fourth-level experience.
At the start of your PhD you identify a research problem in your field which
needs to be solved, or an issue in your field which has not hitherto been
researched but which is clearly important and has scope for study. A
research plan is a model or scheme which you design to help you organise
your thoughts about your topic, schedule the specific jobs which you need
to do, and visualise a finished product.
There are two critical things to remember when you begin to design a
research plan.